To treat with quicklime.
Calcium oxide, which is produced by heating (calcining) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water.
To anticipate or strongly expect.
To cover with slate.
To schedule.
To criticise harshly.
To set a dog upon (a person).
To nominate, appoint, or designate.
An artificial material resembling slate and used for the same purposes.
A list of affiliated candidates for an election.
A record of money owed.
A tablet computer.
A thin plate of any material; a flake.
A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.
The bluish-grey colour of most slate.
A chalkboard, sheet of slate for writing on with chalk or with a thin rod of slate (a slate pencil) formerly commonly used by both students and teachers in schools.
A roofing-tile made of slate.
Having the bluish-grey/gray colour of slate.